Tiny bytes of tech
Love a particular scene from Die Hard? Or maybe a funny scene from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? If you’re a movie fan or simply love a few scenes from random movies, you can now probably find them on MovieClips, a cool website that has over 12,000 movie clips from a bunch of Hollywood studios. Watch and share!
Ever wish you could grab a clip from a DVD movie onto your PC? Normally, you would have to rip the entire DVD to your drive and then use some cutting/editing program to grab any particular section of the DVD.
Using DVD Knife, you can simply set your start and end points and then click Save. That’s it! It’ll automatically extracting the clip into a VOB file that can later be converted into any format you like. Nice!
DVD Knife via LifeHacker
So 2010 is coming fast and things are in tech are changing just as fast? Have any guesses as to what is going to change dramatically in 2010? According to Digital Media Buzz, Facebook is going to replace email, you’ll not have to use so many logins on different sites, Flash will become more popular, and crowd sourcing will get bigger.
Looking for a website where you can watch movies online for free? Depending on whether you want to watch Classics, International films, documentaries, etc, you might have to go to different sites.
OpenCulture has written up a great article on over 20 places that you can go to watch movies online for free. Check it out!
So you love listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, but are kind of getting tired of the same song over and over again? Maybe you are interested in finding another band that is similar in music style, but has a different sound?
Digital Inspiration has a great guide on how to expand your music collection by using free services such as Pandora and Last.fm, which first figure out what music you like and then use advanced algorithms to find similar music.
clipShow is a nifty little plugin for your new Windows 7 Media Center PC that will let you browse and watch your videos in a slideshow-type format. You can also have it play random video clips at specified time intervals.
Also, it integrates with Windows 7 Home Server and HomeGroup, which means it’ll includes all videos found on any computer in the HomeGroup. Lastly, if organizes all your videos clips in a cool looking timeline regardless of where they are physically stored. Enjoy!
